hellkat
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Easy-X
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| hellkat wrote: | You are not responsible for your grandchildren.
Admittedly I might think differently if I had some ...  ... but as I haven't, then I simply see it that once your own child/ren have left home, you are entitled to be your own person again.
If they choose to have children, it's up to you if you want to stick around to be lumbered with them.
No doubt I will change my mind if I ever become a grandmother.
Meantime, my daughter is talking about getting a Ducati  |
The great thing about grandchildren is you can enjoy that pinnacle of human existence - observing the creation of a person, in the psychological sense - but someone else gets to clean up all the shit!
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Lord Percy
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Posted: 00:45 - 02 Nov 2021  Post subject: |
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Link doesn't seem to work
edit: Okay it works. BCF seems to have forced the link to be https but it only works via http. Odd!
Fantastically low review scores for that engine Also interesting to see that the first reviewer's previous bike was a Suzuki GT550. Same as me. Only difference is I'd rate my current machine much higher. Perhaps it handles better for me because so much of the bike is customised away from the original design .
I really enjoy riding it, at least in the city anyway. I took a longer trip (1-2hrs) to the coast last weekend and that wasn't too great. Suspension is solid and not the most comfortable seating position (but not awful either). Best part was coming back, we got caught in MASSIVE monsoon rains, all the roads flooded and I ended up sloshing into some rather deep water at fair speed, causing the engine to cut out and never fully recover for most of the journey back. I think one of the spark plugs got wet or something because the bike was literally running at half power for the whole thing. It was really the most intense rain I've ever ridden through, coupled with floods sewage water, you name it, and having to rev the tits off the engine and slip the clutch for almost the entire thing to make sure it didn't cut out through all the deep water parts.
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blurredman
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Posted: 09:21 - 02 Nov 2021  Post subject: |
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| Lord Percy wrote: |
Link doesn't seem to work
edit: Okay it works. BCF seems to have forced the link to be https but it only works via http. Odd! |
Yep... Stupid BCF rule!
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Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 39k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 50k. |
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